Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

36 reviews

risaleel's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Kidnapping, Classism, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Violence, Death, Slavery, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

nolalee's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Trafficking, Vomit, Drug use, and Medical content

pagesandplanets's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, Murder, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Confinement, and Slavery

martinatan's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

Didn’t think I could end up disliking a book so much almost entirely due to its last 100 pages.

I didn’t have too much interest in the plot setup in the first place, was mostly interested in how the world building would turn out. Evidently, worldbuilding still depends on interesting and complex character motivations to feel realistic and satisfying, and this story does not have such characters. I’m disappointed that the protagonist’s relationships with male characters could be so predictable and hollow.

The wrap-up of this book was a rushed mess. I found myself so uninterested in the final showdown because it felt breezed over, and had no satisfying emotional climaxes concerning the protagonist’s relationships with any others. The progressions of some of these relationships made very little sense and mainly seeking to fulfill tropes and set the stage for -dramatic and unnecessarily sarcastic dialogue.

The romantic subplots were on the whole lacking in depth and developed poorly, I feel like

the interspecies relationship could have been at least explored by acknowledging the taboo of it. Maybe it was left unsaid on purpose. Maybe this whole series was set up as a kink fulfillment for the author. Anyway it’s not the kind of fulfillment I was looking for.

I wish the world could be explored in some other story where societal relationships and combat/technology are more integrated with the magic system.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, and Death

roisinmarie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Gore, Torture, and Violence

kristinv20's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

agentsofromanov's review

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Slavery

The main character Paige experiences a lot of Anti- Irish sentiment

annamorgan27's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Slavery, and Blood

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

The most enjoyable parts of this book were the flashbacks to the gang stuff. Otherwise it dragged. When things actually started to get interesting, it jumped in time and skipped all of those bits. Character motivations and actions didn’t make sense and were all covered in mystery to have us as the readers trust it when in reality it was flimsy. The villains were weak and almost every character was one dimensional. The idea of the magic was cool but not enough to make up for everything else. Maybe I would have liked this if I’d have read it when it first came out but my tastes have evolved a lot since then. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault and Torture

Possession; ghosts

whatjasread's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

• was encouraged to read by a pal and was very scared but honestly all worked out
• I adore Paige and Arcturus and the entire gang
• I think I cried twice which surprised me
• bit info dumpy at the start but gradually improves once the action starts
• don’t know if or when I’ll get to the next book but I won’t rule it out!

TWs: blood, child death, vomiting, gore, gun violence, kidnapping, medical content (inc. needles), drugging, murder, sexual assault, slavery (inc. master/slave relationships), torture, violence, xenophobia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Medical content, Sexual assault, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Xenophobia